{"id":1668,"date":"2013-06-04T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2013-06-05T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T06:20:35","slug":"blackened-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/blackened-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackened by Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130324-045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1562\" alt=\"20130324 045\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130324-045-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130324-045-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130324-045.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>The Three Sisters are a landmark in the forest, showing how a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/?s=fire\">controlled burn<\/a>\u00a0can shape the environment. \u00a0A year after the fire, a friend commented that he preferred the look of the bush that had been burnt, as he liked the contrast of the bright green new leaves against the blackened bark of the trees. I don&#8217;t. \u00a0I like the softness of the grey bark melding in with the grey green leaves in the original forest. \u00a0I also love how the kangaroos blend in against that backdrop. \u00a0There have been some benefits from the burn, we have much more of an understorey growing in the burnt area, with rampant <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/fabby-fluoro-flower\/\">Kennedia <\/a>spreading throughout the forest and lots of shrubby acacias growing well. \u00a0However, much of the new growth is sprouting from the bases of trees killed by the fire, I hope this is necessary regneration that will make the forest healthier in the \u00a0long term. \u00a0I have been keeping track of where the mushrooms have appeared over the last month to see if there is any difference between the zones. \u00a0My unscientific observations are that there are more <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/25\/fluted-funnel-fungus\/\">Funnel Pax<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/salmon-coral-fungus\/\">Coral<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/antlered-jelly-fungus\/\">Jelly\u00a0<\/a>and Boletes (<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/rhubarb-and-custard\/\">Rhubarb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/ridge-stemmed-bolete\/\">Ridge Stemmed<\/a>) in the burnt areas, I have only seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/edible-to-something\/\">Russula <\/a>in un-burnt and there are equal clusters of the Pineapple Topped <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/another-poisonous-mushroom\/\">White Amanita<\/a> in both.<\/p>\n<p>Here <a href=\"http:\/\/littlehouseontheriver.com.au\/?p=1788\" target=\"_blank\">are some views <\/a>on controlled burning by\u00a0<em>Sophie Love a farmer, marketer and writer. View her full profile\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/unleashed\/sophie-love-3997118.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlehouseontheriver.com.au\/?p=1788\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Sisters are a landmark in the forest, showing how a\u00a0controlled burn\u00a0can shape the environment. \u00a0A year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fungi","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130324-045.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}